"Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)" is a 25-minute live acction short film from 2020. This premiered in late September 2020 and this means it is still way under three months old and still scored millions of views on Youtube already. Not too shabby. The reason may be that the cast list is phenomenal to say the least. I cannot really elaborate in detail here which of the actors were also part of the original film(s) and which of them are new additions. Only one I checked because I like her quite a bit and Florence Pugh seems to be new. Anyway, you can check out the cast list yourself, so I'm not gonna go much into detail now who's on board here. The writer and director still gets a mention and this is Oscar nominee Nancy Meyers of course and she is around the age of 70 at this point. One who definitely was in the old movies is Steve Martin. It's kinda true he has not aged a lot in 20 years, but that is mostly because his hair had the same color pretty much already back in 2000. As I quite like "The 10th Kingdom", I was glad to see Kimberly Williams-Paisley in here because as she was probably a much bigger star back then than she is today, you don't really get to see her that often anymore. But still really nice to see her around again, even if her material is only minimal unfortunately. (The other) Culkin gets much better material. The first half everybody gets a little but, but in the second half it's his character who basically gets married online to the woman he is already engaged to. But it's corona time and this film is set in 2020 now as well, so they are talking all through their webcams if they find the buttons.
Okay I must say I did not really laugh a lot watching this one. The first half without the wedding was still better and more entertaining overall, but the wedding felt zero touching to me. So this should not be an official sequel. Just make a new third movie at some point in the future because I kinda feel the outcome here does not have the most positive effect on the duology. Hesitant to call it a trilogy. De Niro is of course a big star and another reason why many watched this probably. Also how Netflix promoted it in an official manner as a live stream on their Youtube channel. So yeah, I suppose this is all I have to say here for now. Highlights for me were Pugh and KWP, even if they had literally nothing to work with, but Oscar nominee Pugh is such a scene stealer nonetheless these days. Awesome. Really curious about her future. The negative highlight was maybe the fella who was in charge of marrying the two. With everything basically. The way he talked. The way he acted. All so ham and over the top I just could not enjoy it. By the way, reviewing this short film as somebody who has not (yet) seen the film(s) before that and I must say what I got to see here also did not get me particularly curious. And what was up with that Reese Witherspoon introduction? Felt pretty much out of place. Oh well. I give the entire thing a thumbs-down, but maybe I will change my mind anytime soon when I'm watching the full feature movie from a long time ago. Not really soon though.
Okay I must say I did not really laugh a lot watching this one. The first half without the wedding was still better and more entertaining overall, but the wedding felt zero touching to me. So this should not be an official sequel. Just make a new third movie at some point in the future because I kinda feel the outcome here does not have the most positive effect on the duology. Hesitant to call it a trilogy. De Niro is of course a big star and another reason why many watched this probably. Also how Netflix promoted it in an official manner as a live stream on their Youtube channel. So yeah, I suppose this is all I have to say here for now. Highlights for me were Pugh and KWP, even if they had literally nothing to work with, but Oscar nominee Pugh is such a scene stealer nonetheless these days. Awesome. Really curious about her future. The negative highlight was maybe the fella who was in charge of marrying the two. With everything basically. The way he talked. The way he acted. All so ham and over the top I just could not enjoy it. By the way, reviewing this short film as somebody who has not (yet) seen the film(s) before that and I must say what I got to see here also did not get me particularly curious. And what was up with that Reese Witherspoon introduction? Felt pretty much out of place. Oh well. I give the entire thing a thumbs-down, but maybe I will change my mind anytime soon when I'm watching the full feature movie from a long time ago. Not really soon though.